Several months ago I purchased a new body spray in the scent “Vanilla Romance”. There was a sale, and on a whim I purchased a small room spray in the same scent.
I came home, stuck the body spray in the cabinet for when my current one ran out, and placed the room spray in the bathroom without too much thought.
For the past several months, both my husband and I have used that room spray pretty much exclusively only after we poop. It’s become a joke, like if we hear the spray go off we will tease each other. Just normal married couple stuff.
Well today… today I finally ran out of my old body spray and broke out the new one. Vanilla romance. I spritzed it all over myself right before we left for dinner.
Immediately upon getting within the vicinity of my husband, he turns to me and with a grin, says “Ohhhh so thats why we’re going to be late, Ms Poopy-Pants”. He would not believe me when I told him I was not, in fact, using the restroom.
So yeah. I Pavlovian-ed my husband into associating vanilla romance with literal poop. Now I need a new perfume.
TL;DR: In an entirely foreseeable outcome, my new body spray reminds my husband of poop because I purchased a room spray in the same scent months ago.
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Just bought vanilla romance hand soap from bath and bodyworks. Gonna think of this every time I wash my hands now.
Reason 73 why I keep diesel in an atomizer for my body spray
Need new air freshener. Now I know what to look for.
This is the scent equivalent of the lesson everybody learned about ringtones.
Now buy poop-spray and your husband will think of Vanilla Romance.
Eucalyptus essential has the same connection in my brain, associated with poo. That and whatever cologne my dad used… shit and shower go to work. Maybe he had it reversed idk
I bet you could use the body spray like Poo-pourri. The DIY ones are basically essential oils and water.
its actually scary, how quickly we can train ourself 😀
on the other side, imagine everytime -this scent- i need to stretch or <did i drink enough> etc.
your husband must be emotionally very confused now:) if you d continue to use the body-spray, he might start a poop-fetish. since his brain tries to put vanilla-person-i-love and vanilla-poop together 😀
This is why I can’t stand the smell of lavender
Chatgpt sure loves stories about pooping
I hate oranges for similar reasons.
My school had massive food waste bins on the yard they only emptied like once a week and never cleaned. A lot of people ate oranges and orange peels have a strong enough smell to cut through everything else so everytime you opened it you were hit by the combined smell of rotting food and oranges. Now if i smell oranges in isolation my brain fills in the blanks on the rotting food part and i recoil a bit.
you conditioned your husband with poop spray like a puppy!
They all smell like bathrooms to me. 🤷
Congrats, you accidentally weaponized scent memory. You didn’t just buy a perfume, you bottled the essence of “post-dump ambiance” and wore it out to dinner. There’s no recovering Vanilla Romance now. It belongs to the bathroom gods.
I don’t understand people who believe that covering up poop scent with a stronger scent actually makes it better.
you didn’t buy perfume, you bought trauma in a bottle — congrats on scent-marking your marriage in the weirdest way possible
Did he ask to push up your stool at dinner?
I have a lot of fragrances if you need a recommendation!
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I think I might be a fragrance addict 🫤
This is why I’m incredibly picky about candles and perfume scents. Too many of them remind me of bathroom sprays!
Wow, you Pavlov’d him with bathroom spray romance ruined but comedic gold.
I didn’t know that adults used body sprays. I thought it was a teenager thing.
I accidentally bought a bathroom spray from Dollar Tree like Burberry Goddess. Upon first spray, realized it and threw it away immediately. Figured losing $1.25 was better than $125.
I really like JPG Le Male, but there’s like bathroom cleaners or urinal cakes that have the same scent profile and it’s kinda ruining it for me.
just flushing after a fresh one keeps the smell to a minimum & burning a match after helps clear the air works wonders. I’d switch to doing that instead of using a spray & associating a specific scent to poo, just sayin’ ¯_(ツ)_/¯